we've got to extract the sand on the back of it's agreeing to the terms of its merger with the glencore with around thirty three billion dollars so that's been driving mining stocks up take a look at spain now and our debt levels will increase further next year despite the state's efforts to cut spending nation's debt is expected to reach eighty five percent of g.d.p. this year and ninety one percent in two thousand and thirteen and that's a freefall to increase since two thousand and eight x. per se it's just a matter of time before spain asks for a bailout. or has moved over to currencies now with the euro is gaining slightly on the dollar that's on the back of this manufacturing data in the united states and the russian ruble is very much in line with the this trend it's losing value to the euro but gating around half of the cent against it. and on the russian market source are pretty successful day with the obvious up to and to send outstanding game as gas from. the form is up on

a twenty year l.n.g. delivery contract to india and the latter is burbank is up after the finalize the acquisition of turkey's denning's bank. and that's all we have for now now right now we ask why some critics are saying that israeli democracy is basically a contradiction in terms of interview comes next. have who is the former head of the world zionist organization and also the former head of the israeli parliament so i thank you very much for joining us here on r.t. israel defines itself as a jewish and democratic state does this definition hold or is there a contradiction between the two marketing wise sounds from plastic to the price of one i mean not only it's a democracy it's a jewish democracy and many people maybe most of the people are very satisfied with

it because they don't really think about the built in oxymoron or paradox which means that suitable for a few of the democratic components is the human being it's you and me and him and her we are the source of authority of ourselves the eventually the source or thirty of the jewish component of the equation is the god in heaven so it's actually a state which was two. sources of authority democracy and theocracy this is impossible but this is. ways for its appearance many times when you see into conflicts within israel between church and state between knesset and beit the knesset which is the synagogue and the parliament it's along this line is a real democracy or a potential to ocracy so i think the business for mission will not hold water for long recent article israel's fading democracy you know mental state of israel's

democratic values what are some of the most imminent dangers to israel's democracy it's not an easy question to answer because you see weaknesses in democracies all over the world i mean you see the. people in their democratically elected institutions all over the west. so part of what happens to the western democracy is happens to israel as well and this is. the performance is not good the feeling of the individual that somehow they do not serve me but they serve the day the elected to serve their own. purposes or goals or so fulfillment missions or whatever it is and it's not there for me so this part of it what happens to the entire west is that in israel you have at least three more components the first one is we spoke earlier and this is the inevitable coup

lesion between church and state. the second is if you define israel as a jewish democratic state and the jewish project takes over the democratic project all of a sudden you realize that we have an ethnic of the mark we'll see. democracy be possible. when you have just a little concept of democracy is a kind of a universal should be universal set of values which is of course my fundamental belief and the fact that in israel we have more than twenty percent of the population who do not belong to the jewish component to be jewish majority create a situation in which many israelis believe the mako see is the rule of my jury at the rather than understanding that most of the mark we're seeing is about the freedoms and the liberties of the minorities or the freedoms and liberties of the minorities the third component which heroes of threatens the very foundation of

these are the mark we see. is the fact that we don't have a deep democratic heritage the overwhelming majority of israelis are coming from an undemocratic background be the muslim hemisphere be holocaust survivors be people who immigrated from communist russia which was not the best of democracies ever. it's. so we do not yet have a deep legacy of democratic spirit and when ever you have a. people we drove to the old system people with the devil they know and the devil we knew is not a democratic devil what role do israel's palestinian citizens play in the jewish democratic equation from the point of view of many of their. of the system we can we boys of the system mean whenever something bad happens between jews and jews

the with the palestinian the israeli palestinian i mean when lieberman wants to make it come pain again somebody. bash is the minority when. the party wants to progress itself it goes against the israeli arabs and there is a competition over let's limit them or who limits them limits then. so i would say that in many many cases unfortunately the israeli palestinians are that little more space for. the quality and the quality of the israeli democracy and recently most of the tests coming out. what does the word zionism mean to you for me is there was a very interesting maybe even crucial movement in a concept that was actually the scaffolding. of the jewish structure it was a scaffolding newly erected by the end of the nineteenth century in order to transform

or renew or rebuild the structure of from an existing structure into a sovereign one in forty eight the new structure is the building is built the inauguration was done we can remove the skull we don't need it anymore i mean personally i'm a human being that's my family name my middle name is that i'm jewish. and my given name that i mean is really how do you we can solve the law of the turn and the palestinian refugees cry for what they call the right to return to their land regardless of what will happen the should happen between israel and palestine we should address the law the law of return was in this maybe was a necessity a bit early stages of the state and we still lived under the impression of jews being persecuted because of the judaism and the national belonging to the jewish collective which actually was the fall of the of the world by the end of the

eighty's so israel or that part of it was a safe haven for jews is neither the fast track for those who are running away because of the for the live because of the jewishness as from now ninety eight percent of the jews are living outside of the immediate threat for their life i mean the twenty four thousand jews in iran four thousand jews in morocco to jews in afghanistan they're not talking to each other and that's it. the overwhelming majority of the jews are living in a democratic hemisphere. so we should have a normal equal to all citizenship maybe this should be the paragraph that if one individual be you or me or me or my uncle or you is being persecuted because of the judaism they will have a kind of struck into citizenship to protect them otherwise all the rest of them normal procedure to join the the israeli collective is for the right of return of

the palestinians if there will be two state solution. i have no problem with them in whatever they want to do in their country welcome you have said that something profound and basic has changed in israel's relationship with the united states and you also say that netanyahu is great achievement was to make israel a partisan issue do you think that israel remains an asset. to the united states or has it become a liability new orleans for i can give you is america still in their support of israel because whether israel is an asset for us you have to ask them ok though. not at all sure if we should continue with the kind of one side the strategy of the israeli government siding with the harshest. new york american philosophy is. the more the most difficult right wing. merciless capitalist economy on

one hand and being very very conservative views of the enemies and powers and fears and threats etc these are some other stuff israel will not for long will be above the political debate in that it states of america it will be an asset for the republicans and a liability for the democrats in body in the media will be totally removed from the american political equations the severe strategic mistake led by the israeli prime minister binyamin at the neo israel should remain out of any political nuance in america partisan political nuance in america. thank you very much for joining us here on r.t. leisure. a

sacred place rising out of the waters of the lake the lawn ministry is home to one hundred fifty orthodox monks mostly younger than thirty five and they've come from many different places and backgrounds to live in isolation here spiritual life it takes up many hours on the road to becoming a monk requires both hard work and religious tele cation. alexei wants to become and herds cattle as part of this preparation. however these beasts get a musical company. they sure are minimal sound sequences you know they react to the sound signals the flutes the herders had in the old days they needed them it wasn't just a fun thing but these matters didn't come naturally requiring decades of composting to bring the soil up to farming standard this island is mostly rock. the

soil here is very thin on the monks can't just get more of it because that surrounded by the lake so they have to work very hard in order to provide whatever food they need. they grow their own crops found their own fish and repair their own churches. but the central purpose of the lawn has always been religious the main ministry surrounded by smaller primaries spread through the many archipelago the monks who know their existence is a little different from that of other ministries here we are out of the way and we do have. bill graham some song times tourists as well but only. tranquility he says he's coddling. the. combination of high religion and down to earth hard work that motivates these men.

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it's judgment day for georgia's ruling party challenge by a popularity slump and united opposition as voters have their say in parliamentary elections more than fifty three percent of ballots happen in towns with polls closing in less than two hours. nine medics involved brain lose an appeal to have their prison sentences overturned in a case that's been slammed as politically motivated medics treated protesters wounded during a brutal police crackdown on pro-democracy rallies in the gulf states last year. and hundreds of people staged demo's at a u.s. military base on the japanese island of okinawa washington has deployed six hybrid

planes to the area to once again crop up its presence and so. right now it's time for the sports update with you now and then the army men are marching again on the basketball court that's right the basketball season in russia hasn't even begun yet but they've already won a trophy intriguingly enough who are not coming up in just a sec. by joining us this is sports there and we have got plenty ahead few including the following. continental kings of europe upset the odds to retain the ryder cup after one of the most dramatic conclusions in the event's history. best wishes c.s.k. moscow give head coach a taurima see the perfect birthday present being lucky. to lift the first trophy of the basketball season. kicking all alexander yeah million ankle continues his rise

back up the mixed martial arts ranks with a dominant display in moscow. golf for sure there was pure drama on the greens of medina europe reclaim the ryder cup in the most dramatic of fashion trailing ten six to the united states heading into the final day the visitors completed one of the most famous comebacks in the event's history the us knew they only needed to win four of the twelve points on offer on the last day to wrestle the trophy from europe's grasp but inspired by spanish captain jose maria olazabal memories of least seventy europe rallied against not only the opposition but also the ruckus support six of the twelve marches going to the whole english meant justin rose carding birdies on the seventeenth on the pitch for mickelson this part particularly impressive coming up from thirty five feet on the seven didn't want an effort but it was a birdie on the final hole from german martin keimer which secured

a win over steve stricker and guaranteed at least an overall draw the icing on the cake and overall victory coming moments later of tiger woods bogey conceding victory to europe on a scoreline of fourteen to thirteen and a half points their seventh ryder cup win in the last nine uncertainly. the most dramatic. footballer of battered and bruised will tomorrow be seeking to secure their first win in the champions league this season the muscovites entertain celtic with muncher unite emery insisting that despite midfielder romelu goal keeper under decant being out that will not be an excuse for not taking all three points at home. injuries are a part of football but we must do the best we can with what we have playing at a high level we are in a must win situation after a tough loss against barcelona and we've been taking time to prepare both physically and mentally for an aggressive celtic team if we can get

a foothold in the game than we can be harmful for for any team and i think this team is is growing as. there's no confidence about them but we're going to have to be the very best to get something out of the game when it. cameroon will once again be able to boast the world's highest paid for baller and their national team line up under the striker samuel eto ending his boycott of the lions after pleas from the country's government the thirty one year old was named in their squad this past august but famously refused to play citing what he called tour level organization to run the team and so is believed to be paid around twenty million euro per year playing here in russia. a number of big issues on the table meanwhile the latest meeting of the u.a.e. for executive committee european football's governing body meeting today in sim petersburg media rights for both the euro two thousand and sixteen and world cup twenty eighteen qualifiers among the key topics to be discussed the fifty three you

if a national associations have agreed to centralize the rights for the european games which started twenty eight fourteen the thinking behind that arrangement according to you a fact is that it should go and see the national bodies more revenue from their own qualifying matches. to basketball and have won the season's first trophy the annual . after seeing off. in the all russian decider of the european wide tournaments constitute the top off watch the action for us. to go up for an all sorts head coach at the rim is seen who returned to the co-op this offseason his former assistant at the red and lose your. by shootin who recently took charge at locomotive kolbein we were together for the. two moments. to play. is being. it was a tight battle in the opening quarter but in the second says moved up

a gear and never looked back as a committee of combined seemed exhausted after a surprising win over the euro league title holders olympiacos in the semifinal on saturday. the hosts delivered a strong performance constantly moving the ball well and not alone any easy shots for a local messina who turned fifty three that night had a chance to experiment on the courts in order to find the right replacement for the n.b.a. is minnesota timberwolves new signings under a kid in ankara and alex a shred as a result says going crees their margin to twenty points seven minutes before the end of the match eventually cruising past their opponents to a confident eighty two sixty five weeks three. weeks. it's more. than just. the. during the tournament we played against both finalists of last season's usually we

tried our best but tonight we only competed in the first two quarters and the third defense failed and we simply couldn't get back in the game so this can take home the third going to kick off a new row and messina get plenty of food for thought ahead of the season that deep soft next week while the red and blues fans hope that the four time you're a league winner it has already found the right to roost on the hardwood to bring some european glory back to moscow on sunday but out of r.t. . several members of france's a lump of gold medal winning humble squad have been accused of much fixing start. car about it and eight of us a club team it's the tane by undercover if officials immediately following. on this last p.s.g. the twenty eight year old two time olympic gold medal was led away for questioning right after giving a post that much interview the french media reported last week that he and several other players intentionally held loose key club games but their relatives had gambled on the squad have dominated matters domestically winning

a dozen league title since one nine hundred ninety eight some of those same players helped france become the first nation to win two straight olympic gold medals in the summer. two mixed martial arts finally were alexander yaml yank his ascent back up the sport's ranks is continuing the russian known as the grim reaper claiming his fourth win in a row in moscow after one of the most brutal events in and one challenge history robert for dunny and he took up a seat for this one. on the marriage still one of the best pair of hands in the mixed martial arts heavyweight division on sunday night the next on three million in cup prove that in style the main event of the n one shows tournaments held in the russian capital so the thirty one year old face the dangerous striker constantin the luckiest world and european kid boxing champ then maybe much less at depth in the ground game though you million incl was far from teasing it take down

. like the fact that he showed so much heart and courage at every opportunity he was looking for a big punch and missed it always takes a lot of energy so i got him exhausted toe to toe and what is important i showed him i was even better a striking then took him to the ground which was also tough. when it comes to dissuade division every single punch can be to the side or. simply outclassed his opponent in striking reminding everybody what he's known for fast and powerful hands and a surprisingly easy going at it. often on the edge in this fight you saw all those hefty punches swing over my head didn't i even got the sniffles you see he was like i'm going to start off and tomorrow. how will we take you through it was the least of his problems. will be giving him a chance to survive in the fight and make it to the final bell the outcome was

crystal clear before that they'll want a unanimous decision victory for it's on those who have built what gave him an extra edge in the bout having fodor in my corner is great it helps a lot in all respects you want to know why i was so much better than constantine tonight that's because there were two of us fighting against a very my elder brother was with me. i'm sure alexander can do much better. sometimes he was a bit too cautious just taking chances sometimes vice versa and he was too risky in the fight so his performance was not flawless he can do great things in the ring with his best lies ahead it's already the fourth consecutive win for it somebody who continues to come back to the enemy summit on the fifteenth of the member he will face one of the world's best wrestling specialists jeff monson a true test of how for he has come to. forty mosco

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my right foot i use my hands a lot in my artwork i find myself drawing my hands quite a bit to me for my hands you know just as if anyone would. but they do tell a story they tell us story of. the ox and. the news today violence is once again flared up. and these are the images the world has

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